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In a country that is in the process of bidding a long farewell to its ageing revolutionaries, Mariela Castro brings an expectation of change along with an air of youthful passion. As the director of Cenesex (the National Sex Education Center) Ms. Castro is eager to consider where Cuba should go in a postrevolutionary era.
"We have many contradictions in Cuba," says Castro, the daughter of Raúl Castro, Cuba's de facto leader and brother of ailing President Fidel Castro. A Spanish doctor arrived in Cuba last week, reenergizing speculation about the health of the Cuban leader, who has not been seen in public since undergoing surgery in July. "We need to experiment and to test what really works, to make public ownership more effective, rather than simply adopting wholesale free-market reforms," Ms. Castro says.
Leaders like Ms. Castro may indicate the extent to which a post-Castro Cuba may be willing to liberalize, both economically and socially. As Cuba's old-guard leadership fades, this new generation – made up primarily of the sons and daughters of those who fought in the 1959 Communist revolution – is perhaps more sympathetic to economic reforms and more-liberal social policies.
Nevertheless, Cuba-watchers and experts have ruled out any dramatic lurch toward a liberal market economy that might undermine the island nation's heritage as the persistent holdout of traditional Communist policies. More relaxed social attitudes may also evolve gradually.
Still, no one doubts that change is afoot.
"The transition in Cuba has already taken place" and this new generation has a key role to play, says Richard Gott, a Latin American analyst and former foreign correspondent for the London-based The Guardian newspaper. "Carlos Lage will be the brains behind the new government. He, together with Julio Soberon at the central bank, will seek to chart a new economic course."
Now Raul Castro has started to echo some of his daughter's sentiments. Addressing university students, he urged that they should ''fearlessly engage in public debate and analysis," according to Granma, the Communist Party newspaper.
Cuba is one of several Latin American countries that once harassed homosexuals as a matter of policy. But Mariela Castro, who is also an executive member of the World Association for Sexual Health, insists that job discrimination and mass arrests are a thing of the past.
"[Homosexuals] still sometimes face arrest by bigoted police" says Castro, adding that she has sometimes clashed with the authorities in her efforts to release gay men and women from prison.
"Now, society is more relaxed. There is no official repression of gays and lesbians," she argues confidently.
Cuban writer and culture minister Abel Prieto has also emerged as an influential power broker in a changing Cuba. Since joining the state bureaucracy and the politburo, the long-haired, middle-aged minister still exudes a passion for culture and a common touch.
In response to a question about the conflict of interest between writers and the state, Mr. Prieto laughs, saying that, "sometimes I feel like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but I hope that artists and writers feel that I am still one of them."
Unlike many members of the government, Prieto is very candid as he speaks about allegations that the Cuban government censors political websites.
"It would be a delusion to think we could hide that torrent of information," he insists, referring to anti-Castro websites. "The only possibility is to beat them with a better concept of life."
Prieto also defended the arrest of the dissident writer Raul Rivero in 2003.
"He was not arrested for his views, but for receiving US funding for his collaboration with a country that has besieged our island," argues the minister, referring to the 45-year-long US trade embargo.
An avid fan of the Beatles since the 1970s when their music was essentially banned by the Cuban state, Prieto has led an appreciation campaign of John Lennon. In 2000, he unveiled a statue and dedicated "John Lennon Park" to the musician's memory. Many Cubans joke that he is not as much a Marxist-Leninist as a "Marxist-Lennonist."
Prieto, because of a moment on Cuban television five years ago, is known as one of the few Cabinet ministers who has ever dared to challenge the president. Cubans recall a news segment in which Castro and Prieto appeared together.
After Castro blamed his minister for the fact that so many artists were leaving the country to work abroad, Prieto defended himself.
Millions watched as their supreme leader accepted his error and apologized to Abel Prieto.
"Prieto is extremely important. He has carved out a sizable space for cultural expression [for] many Cuban artists and writers since he became minister of culture," says Julia Sweig, director of the Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.
In a Foreign Affairs article, written after a lengthy visit to Cuba in November, Ms. Sweig indicated that expectations were high among Cuban officials that the government could move forward after Castro.
"People at all levels of the Cuban government and the Communist Party were enormously confident of the regime's ability to survive Fidel's passing," Ms. Sweig wrote.
That confidence was apparent in Raúl Castro's speech to the opening session of the new parliament last week. "Tell it like it is – tell the truth without justifications, because we are tired of justifications in this revolution," the acting president urged his ministers, according to the youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde.
Attempts by the Bush administration to set the agenda for change in Cuba, says Sweig, appear to be increasingly irrelevant to the reality inside the country, as a new generation gains increasing clout.
Gott, the Latin American analyst, says that both Ms. Castro and Prieto are figures to watch.
"Mariela Castro is a more than competent member of the Castro clan – she will have an important role in social affairs," he says. "The genial Abel Prieto might well be promoted from the culture ministry to something more taxing."


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That grouper you had for dinner last night may not actually be grouper at all. According to a recent report
from Oceana, an international ocean-protection organization, seafood may be mislabeled as often as 25% to 70% of the time, at least in part because of the economic incentives to label cheaper species as more expensive ones. But consumers who actually want to know what they're eating will soon have a choice thanks to Gulf Wild, a initiative from the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance that puts numbered, digitally printed tags on individual fish caught in the Gulf of Mexico.
Gulf Wild was born as a response to the Gulf oil disaster "as a solution to prove that our fish didn't come out of oily water," explains Jason DeLaCruz, a commercial Gulf fisherman who works with the organization. Fishermen who participate in the program individually tag each fish caught on their boat (on a grouper-catching boat like the one DeLaCruz operates, up to 1,000 fish can be tagged on a trip). When consumers, retail buyers, and chefs buy the fish, they can look up the tags on Gulf Wild's website to learn about the species, the fishermen who caught it, and the 10 square mile harvesting location in the Gulf. The organization also tests the fish for toxins.
"The number one focus is to make this a fisherman-driven program, to make sure he's getting a premium price for his product," says DeLaCruz. "A lot of guys in town are having to compete selling our fish to different
restaurants with other things labeled as grouper that aren't
actually grouper. There are so many fraudulent fish." Hopefully, if restaurants start advertising their tagged fish, consumers will shy away from potentially counterfeit products, providing a boost to local fishermen.
The pilot Gulf Wild program, which launched in March, works with restaurants in Alabama and Florida, as well as with fishermen and fish markets in four out of the five Gulf States. In the next few weeks, the program will launch with one million tags, 38 high-production commercial fishing boats, and 100 fishermen. The program will cover 19 species, including red snapper and grouper.
Gulf Wild has no plans to expand outside of the Gulf anytime soon, but there are other organizations starting similar initiatives. San Francisco seafood supplier Cleanfish is experimenting with an electronic tagging system of its own, and the California Ocean Protection Council is working on a protocol for a larger fish barcoding system in the state.
DeLaCruz, for his part, just wants to see fishermen get the compensation they deserve for correctly labeling their catches and working with high sustainability standards in mind. "We want to get the fisherman to make as much money as he possibly can," he says.
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Columbus Goes Red For Women
More women than men die each year from heart disease and stroke. These are women we know. They are our wives, sisters, mothers, daughters and friends. In fact, one of every three women will die from heart disease, yet less than 60 percent of women recognize heart disease as the No. 1 killer of women.
Through the Columbus Go Red For Women® movement, the American Heart Association is working to decrease those numbers. We are working to empower women and take action to raise awareness and funds to help women everywhere GO RED.
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At her first photo shoot. We felt the final version with her leaving an old house was more fitting.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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- Jon Glassett said...
The most disturbing thing about her is the twinkle in her left eye.
- November 4, 2010 at 8:54 PM
- Adam said...
I like her smile. She looks happy!
- November 4, 2010 at 9:15 PM
- Sara said...
I was going to ask what the twinkle was? What are the eyes made of?
- November 4, 2010 at 9:15 PM
- Rot said...
wooden balls painted black and coated with a satin clear varnish = twinkle
I've never really done wet eyeballs before so it was neat to experiment with making them look "fresh."
- November 4, 2010 at 9:26 PM
- Unknown said...
FANTASTIC! I love those dark glossy eyes. And the thin black hair is super creepy.
Is she a relative to the Tin Man, she's got the same underbite. Extreme underbite.
How long does it take to paint your creatures and how do you do it? I spent AGES drybrushing my groundbreakers, adding a bit of white and dry brushing again over and over. How do you do yours?
- November 4, 2010 at 10:33 PM
- Anonymous said...
Her eyes are amazing! Love the close up shot.
- November 4, 2010 at 11:07 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
I love that grin....
- November 5, 2010 at 2:04 AM
- Rot said...
No relation to the Tin Man. Just a protruding jaw on a skull-like face.
I do a base coat of two layers of flat black and then detail painting with acrylics using a brush. Takes a while to get the look I want, but no more than a day.
- November 5, 2010 at 5:15 AM
- All Together Dead said...
I would open up my home to that lass anyday......I love the twinkle in her eye and the devious grin she is sporting.
- November 5, 2010 at 8:32 AM
- Rot said...
Offering your head freely : )
- November 5, 2010 at 8:35 AM


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Boyd's pattern: Will Ken hop again?
Ken Boyd is straddling two boards, getting ready to take his distinctive shock of white hair off the Albemarle School Board and over to the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors.
He's already noticed a difference between the two.
"There are a lot more people interested in me as a supervisor than as a school board member," he says. "You have a lot to do with development and growth as a supervisor.
School board members enjoy such fringe benefits as free passes to county school athletic events. Do the supes get better perks? "Oh, yeah," says Boyd without hesitation.
And while he hasn't been wined and dined by developers and anti-growth groups, he has been invited to lunch at Monticello.
After serving on the student council in high school, Boyd didn't get into politics again until he ran for school board four years ago. As a father of four, "I was very intrigued by the SOLs," Boyd says. "I thought that was terrific. I've been very big on accountability."
At the time, he had one son still at home and attending Monticello High. Now that the youngest is gone, Boyd acknowledges a case of empty nest syndrome: "It's great."
"Philosophically, I was in the minority on the school board," says the fiscally conservative owner of Boyd Financial Services. "I wasn't very enthused with the way they handled finances."
One thing unlikely to change in switching boards is the amount of reading and study required to stay well versed, which he estimates to be an additional 20 hours a week in addition to the meetings.
Boyd, one of two Republicans elected to the BOS this year, is concerned about the board's appearance– "deserved or not"– of being anti-business. He mentions, for example, the board's refusal to join the Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development, to which both Charlottesville and UVA belong.
Having moved to the area in 1981 with the now-merged Jefferson National Bank, Boyd remembers when Free Bridge was a two-lane road. And while people always complain about the traffic here, apparently it's nothing new.
"A lot of people don't remember just how bad traffic was," he says.
The Hook predicts more traffic issues in Boyd's future.
Age: 56
What brought you here? Jefferson National Bank
What's worst about living here? Nothing
Favorite hangout? My office. I work long hours.
Most overrated virtue? Isn't that an oxymoron?
What would people be surprised to know about you? I am pretty open, I can't think of anything.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would turn back the clock to age 35 but retain what I have learned since.
What accomplishment are you proudest of? First is raising four children, then starting a successful business, and my community service.
What do people find most annoying about you? Persistency/tenacity
Whom do you admire? Ronald Reagan
Favorite book? Anything by Tom Clancy
What subject causes you to rant? I don't rant. I do get upset when I see politicians who want to complain rather than propose solutions.
What thrills you about life in the 21st century? Technology
What creeps you out about life in the 21st century? Lost values
What do you drive? Chevy Blazer
What's in your car CD player right now? Nothing. I listen to talk radio and news.
What's your next journey? To Washington
What's the most trouble you've ever gotten in? I'll never tell.
What do you regret? Very little
Favorite comfort food? A medium rare steak
What's always in your refrigerator? Jelly
Must-see TV? There is no must-see TV, only must-read books
Favorite cartoon? Snoopy
Describe a perfect day. Having all my children and grandchildren over for a holiday meal, and then having them all go home
Walter Mitty fantasy? Playing basketball in the ACC
Who'd play you in the movie? Steve Martin
Most embarrassing moment? There have been many.
Best advice you ever got? From my father, telling me to start my own company
Favorite bumper sticker? I am not big on bumper stickers, so I would have to say "Ken Boyd for Supervisor."


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"The battle to take over the Republican Party begins today and the failed Republican leadership should resign," said Richard Viguerie, a top activist and chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.
He said the lesson on Romney's loss to President Obama on Tuesday is that the GOP must "never again" nominate a "a big government established conservative for president."
Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots said Romney failed to make the kind of strong case for conservatism that would have won the election.
She described Romney as a "weak, moderate candidate hand-picked by the country club elite Republican establishment."
"They didn't see a clear distinction so they went with what they know," she said of voters.
"It should have been a landslide if Romney had run as a true conservative," said Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center.


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Wildfires continue to burn across the country, with flames racing through Washington State for the fifth day and two small communities in Idaho bracing for the worst. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.
Crews in central Washington, rural Idaho and Southern California made gains on several wildfires, allowing some evacuees to return home and protecting two vacation towns from a massive encroaching blaze.
Firefighters stopped a fire about 75 miles east of Seattle from destroying more buildings in the past two days, fire spokesman Mark Grassel said Thursday, The Associated Press reported.
The blaze near the town of Cle Elum burned at least 70 homes, more than 200 outbuildings and about 35 square miles of wildland since it started Monday.
Some people were able to return home, only to find nothing left except the land their home sat on.
The Letson family discovered the only thing left standing upright was a satellite dish.
"I'm thankful we weren't in it," Virginia Letson told NBC station King 5.
They lost everything except what they shoved into two small suitcases as they escaped the fire. "We did not have insurance, so that was not a good thing," Letson added.
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"Things will get better honey," Virginia's husband, Terry Letson, said. "We're alive."
Mary Colley-Shults went through her family heirlooms. She said she'll miss her grandmother's dishes the most.
"She never had anything," Colley-Shults told King 5. "She lived in a covered wagon most of her life."
But Colley-Shults still has her home, and her horses and cats survived. Even though she can't replace what she lost, she still has the memories they created.
Flames whip through forests
Crews focused on strengthening lines on the fire's stubborn north flank, where flames whipped through thick pine and fir forests in a steep, rugged area.
In the Pacific Northwest, property owners got a first look at what's left of their property after the Taylor Bridge fire tore through their region. Â NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports from Washington state.
"They're really trying to button up that line so they feel more secure about it holding," Grassel told the AP.
Firefighters' work allowed officials to lift some evacuation orders, although homeowners said they didn't feel out of danger yet.
Unusually hot, dry, unstable weather was expected Friday and Saturday, with thunderstorms possible, Grassel said.
Laurie Plut said the fire has hovered right at the timber line, just beyond the wood cabin she and her husband have been building over the past 12 years.
"We're still worried. It's extremely frustrating, but the firefighters have been working hard," she told The AP by telephone. "And we have to love them."
- Razing trees to save a house
- Wildfires continue to burn, destroy homes in Central Washington
- Lone house, surrounded by scorched earth, survives wildfire
In Idaho, crews at 12 big fires worked to protect homes and build lines. Teams of firefighters arrived in Featherville to prepare for work against a huge wildfire that has been advancing on the small communities of Pine and Featherville.
Strangely enough, a column of smoke from the blaze settled over Featherville on Wednesday, cooling temperatures and slowing the fire's steady march toward town, fire information officer Lisa Machnik told Reuters.
Blazes in multiple states threaten houses and cause evacuations.
That gave residents time to protect homes and cabins and prepare for a possible evacuation. The blaze started two weeks ago in the Boise National Forest and has scorched more than 108 square miles.
Thousands told to flee
NBC station KTVB reported that the Custer County Sheriff's office had urged people who live in an area including Custer Town and Jordan Creek to get out as a nearby wildfire worsened.
The sheriff's office said the 2,000 homes affected should be evacuated by 5 p.m. Friday local time (7 p.m. ET).
In the eastern part Idaho, a group of fires that burned more than 114 square miles finally slowed after it blazed through stands of timber killed by bark beetles. The fires were moving northeast, within three miles of the Montana border.
Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has issued a disaster declaration, clearing the way for the Idaho National Guard to get involved.
Inmates join fight against Washington wildfire
Thousands of firefighters were battling blazes throughout the West, which has been hit by hot, dry windy conditions in a fire season that officials said started early. Fire managers and state officials kept a nervous eye on forecasts that warned of more hot, dry weather with possible thunderstorms in many areas.
The ominous weather forecasts were cited by Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, who on Thursday declared a statewide state of emergency that authorizes use of National Guard helicopters to fight wildland blazes. He noted that much of his state was in extreme fire danger, the imminent threat of wildfire and mentioned a 123-square-mile blaze in southern Oregon.
In Northern California, crews made progress along the northern edge of a fire that has burned 67 square miles in the Plumas National Forest. The blaze has threatened more than 900 homes and prompted voluntary evacuations.
It was among the largest of nearly a dozen major wildfires burning across California that kept more than 9,000 firefighters busy.
Crews moved closer to containing several Southern California wildfires, but dozens of rural homes remained threatened as thunderstorms loomed.
In northern San Diego County, a cluster of lightning-sparked fires kept residents from more than 100 homes in Ranchita and San Felipe.
About 30 miles to the northwest, a blaze in Riverside County neared containment. That fire destroyed four structures, injured six people, and burned more than 4 square miles east of Temecula.
Higher humidity helped at a huge wildfire burning on both sides of the Nevada-Oregon state line. The lightning-sparked blaze has burned 722 square miles of sagebrush.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Malloy's case continued to Sept. 30
Defendants plead guilty in incident involving Stamford mayor's son
STAMFORD -- Two co-defendants and another man charged in a drug case involving the mayor's son pleaded guilty to reduced charges in state Superior Court on Thursday in exchange for probation.
The case of Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy's son, Benjamin Malloy, 21, of 277 Ocean Drive E., was continued until Sept. 30, when it will be dealt with separately. Malloy is charged with attempted first-degree robbery and conspiracy to commit that crime.
The prosecutor, State's Attorney David Cohen, said he could not comment because the case is ongoing.
Malloy's attorney, Robert Bello, said in court that he and Cohen had "very meaningful discussions" and were close to a disposition.
Michael Krepak, 20, of 571 Roxbury Road, Stamford, and Karl Hanson 17, also of Stamford, each pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal trespass and conspiracy to possess marijuana, both misdemeanors.
In exchange, they received suspended two-year prison sentences and two years of probation. In addition to substance abuse evaluation and treatment, they must each perform 100 hours of community service.
"The plea brings closure to a challenging time for Michael and his family," said Krepak's attorney, Mark Sherman. "He has accepted responsibility and plans on strictly adhering to the conditions of his sentence."
Eric Sing, 19, whose 165 Kings Highway N. house in Darien the three others went to the night of March 3, pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana. He received a suspended one-year prison sentence and two years of probation with the same conditions as Hanson and Krepak.
More serious charges were dropped.
Police said Malloy, Krepak and Hanson went to Sing's home to buy marijuana. Instead, Malloy pulled out a BB gun, and Hanson brandished a .22-caliber pistol that fires blanks, according to arrest warrant affidavits. When Sing resisted, the trio fled, affidavits said.
Sing originally said three armed and masked men tried to invade his home, police said. He told police that after the men pulled out guns, he got his own .22-caliber rifle. Hanson told his co-defendants they were being shot at as they drove away, and a subsequent search revealed shell casings in the yard, according to affidavits.
Malloy was also arrested in November 2007 on suspicion of selling drugs to a wired informant four times during a two-month investigation, according to a police report. Greenwich police charged him with possession of a controlled substance or less than 4 ounces of marijuana, conspiracy to commit that crime, possession of narcotics, sale of a controlled substance and use of drug paraphernalia.
In June 2008, he entered a two-year probationary program for first-time offenders that would have cleared the drug charges from his record. He also enrolled in a drug rehabilitation program.
Malloy still faces charges in that case, which also was continued until Sept. 30.
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Cityscape: The Fairmount Hotel
The Fairmount Hotel was built in 1906. But it took nearly 80 years for it to gain true fame.
On March 30, 1985, the hotel was painstakingly moved about five blocks from Commerce and Bowie streets, the current site of the Marriott Rivercenter hotel, to its current spot at South Alamo and Nueva streets.
At the time, C. Thomas Wright, Virginia Van Steenberg and Belton K. Johnson purchased the building to save it from being razed.
The brick-and-mortar structure was moved using a cable-and-pulley system that involved 36 rubber-tired hydraulic dollies, a crane for torque, and six fully loaded dump trucks, full of gravel for stability.
The move took six days.
Robert D. Tips is the current owner. Under Tips, the 37-suite hotel underwent a major renovation in 2007.
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Tallest mountains ever seen on Titan imaged by Cassini
The tallest mountains ever seen on Titan - coated with layers of organic material and blanketed by clouds - have been imaged on Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
"We see a massive mountain range that kind of reminds me of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the western United States. This mountain range is continuous and is about 150 kilometres long," said Dr Bob Brown, team leader of the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
During a flyby on 25 October, designed to obtain the highest resolution infrared views of Titan yet, Cassini resolved surface features as small as 400 meters. The images reveal a large mountain range, dunes, and a deposit of material that resembles a volcanic flow. These data, together with radar data from previous flybys, provide new information on the height and composition of geologic features on Titan.
If Titan were Earth, these mountains would lie south of the equator, somewhere in New Zealand. The range is about 150 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide and about 1.5 kilometers high. Deposits of bright, white material, which may be methane 'snow' or exposures of some other organic material, lie at the top of the mountain ridges.
"These mountains are probably as hard as rock, made of icy materials, and are coated with different layers of organics," said Dr Larry Soderblom, Cassini interdisciplinary scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Ariz.
He added, "There seem to be layers and layers of various coats of organic 'paint' on top of each other on these mountain tops, almost like a painter laying the background on a canvas. Some of this organic gunk falls out of the atmosphere as rain, dust, or smog onto the valley floors and mountain tops, which are coated with dark spots that appear to be brushed, washed, scoured and moved around the surface."
A fan-shaped feature, possibly a remnant of a volcanic flow, is also visible in the infrared images. The radar instrument imaged this flow and a circular feature from which the flow seems to emanate on a previous flyby, but not in this level of detail.
The mountains probably formed when material welled up from below to fill the gaps opened when tectonic plates pull apart, similar to the way mid-ocean ridges are formed on Earth.
Separately, the radar and infrared data are difficult to interpret, but together they are a powerful combination. In the infrared images, one can see the shadows of the mountains, and in radar, one can see their shape. But when combined, scientists begin to see variations on the mountains, which is essential to unraveling the mysteries of the geologic processes on Titan.
"The evidence is mounting that this circular feature is a volcano," said Dr Rosaly Lopes, Cassini radar team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "With radar data alone, we identified it as a possible volcano, but the combination of radar and infrared makes it much clearer."
Near the wrinkled, mountainous terrain are clouds in Titan's southern mid latitudes whose source continues to elude scientists. These clouds are probably methane droplets that may form when the atmosphere on Titan cools as it is pushed over the mountains by winds.
The composition of dunes that run across much of Titan is also much clearer. "The dunes seem to consist of sand grains made of organics, built on water-ice bedrock, and there may also be some snow and bright deposits," Brown said.
Titan is a complex place and scientists are uncovering the secrets of the surface, one flyby at a time. Scientists hope to get more clues from the next Titan flyby, on 12 December this year.
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The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona where this image was produced. The radar instrument team is based at JPL, working with team members from the United States and several European countries.
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Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA Huygens Project Scientist
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(Un)equal lives of migrants
Comparing, reflecting and embodying processes of social stratification and cultural diversification in a Latin American city
Two sets of new migrants are the starting point of the project: on the one hand, there are migrants who have come from developing and emerging countries (Senegal and neighbouring countries) and on the other from the countries of former colonial powers in crisis (mainly Spain). They differ according to their places of origin, their human, social, cultural and economic capital, and their legal status. Some of the migrants occupy extreme ends of the social spectrum, yet others mark various and contradictory in-between experiences.
Some of the social mobilities of both European and African city dwellers follow neither common sense conceptions nor popular prejudices. Therefore: How do the learning processes about the local practices of social distinction differ and why? How do migrants compare their lives to others in the locality as well as transnationally? How do migrants engage with, narrate and interpret the sequence of statuses they have experienced transnationally and within the same locality? How are situations evaluated and values attached to them?
Due to multiple interferences of unanticipated social configurations, migrants experience and live their local incorporation in distinct spaces, variously configured networks, and their respective temporalities. The project hereby contributes to an understanding of both the diversifying and stratifying 'southern' urbanity in the 21st century of changing global relations, and the potentially conflicting or converging social imaginaries of its newly arriving city dwellers.


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Over the last 30 years, Anna Quindlen's work has appeared in some of America's most influential newspapers, many of its best-known magazines, and on both fiction and non-fiction bestseller lists. She is a novelist and also writes the prestigious "Last Word" column in Newsweek magazine. Her latest novel, Blessings, is a New York Times bestseller and was recently made into a television movie starring Mary Tyler Moore. Quindlen is currently working on a new collection of essays, Loud and Clear, to be published in April 2004.
A columnist at The New York Times from 1981 to 1994, in 1990 Quindlen became only the third woman in the paper's history to write a regular column for its influential Op-Ed page when she began the nationally syndicated "Public and Private." A collection of those columns, Thinking Out Loud, was published by Random House in 1993 and was on The New York Times Best Seller List for more than three months. In 1992 Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
Quindlen joined the Times in 1977 as a general assignment reporter and was named the paper's deputy metropolitan editor in 1983. She wrote the "About New York" column from 1981 to 1983 and created the column, "Life in the 30's" in 1985.
In 1995 Quindlen left the world of newspapers, which she had joined as a copy girl at age 18, to become a novelist full-time. Quindlen has written four bestselling novels: Object Lessons (1991), One True Thing (1994), Black and Blue (1998) and Blessings (2002). How Reading Changed My Life was released in September 1998 as was One True Thing, a Universal feature film starring Meryl Streep. Black and Blue, which spent six months on The New York Times Best Seller List, was chosen for Oprah's Book Club, and was made into a television movie. With the release of A Short Guide To A Happy Life in 2000, Quindlen became the first writer ever to have books appear on the fiction, nonfiction, and self-help New York Times Best Seller lists. The book sold close to a million copies.
Quindlen also is the author of a collection of essays, Living Out Loud (1988), and two children's books, The Tree That Came to Stay (1992) and Happily Ever After (1997). She also wrote the text for the coffee table pictorial Naked Babies (1996) and Siblings (1998).
Quindlen holds honorary doctorates from Dartmouth College, Denison University, Moravian College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Stevens Institute of Technology, Bates College, Southern Connecticut State University and was awarded the University Medal of Excellence by Columbia. She was a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale, and a Victoria Fellow in Contemporary Issues at Rutgers. In 1996 she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Arts & Sciences. Glamour magazine named her one of its 10 Outstanding Women of the Year in 1991.
Quindlen is a graduate of Barnard College and was elected Chair of Barnard's Board of Trustees in 2003. She also is on the Council of the Author's Guild, the Board at the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City and the Board of NARAL Foundation. She is a member of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Board of Advocates as well.
Anna Quindlen is married to Gerald Krovatin, an attorney, and is the mother of Quindlen, Christopher and Maria Krovatin. She lives with her family in New York City.


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Kurt Nimmo
February 11, 2013
In response to Obama's imperial killing machines – his fleet of roaming drones – a gaggle of senators, led by the gun-grabber Dianne Feinstein, is poised to kill off Sir William Blackstone's "palladium of English liberty," the Sixth Amendment.
Feinstein has proposed "legislation to ensure that drone strikes are carried out in a manner consistent with our values, and the proposal to create an analogue of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to review the conduct of such strikes," in other words a secret tribunal that will hand down kill orders for Americans the government believes are "suspected militants."
Maine independent Senator Angus King imagined a scenario where Obama's imperial courtiers would go behind the closed doors of a drone court and "in a confidential and top-secret way, make the case that this American citizen is an enemy combatant, and at least that would be … some check on the activities of the executive."
The Constitution spells out the right to trial by jury numerous times – in the Sixth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Seventh Amendment and in the original Constitution in Article 3, Section 2. English common law and the Magna Carta of 1215 (Article 39) did away with trials by ordeal and by the 1600s the idea that juries served as a protection against the unrestrained power of kings was universally accepted. All 13 of the original states included in their constitutions the Right to Trial by Jury clauses. The Virginia Bill of Rights of 1788 held "ancient trial by jury" to be "one of the greatest securities to the rights of the people."
"I consider [trial by jury] as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution," Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Thomas Paine. "By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus," he told Alexander Donald in 1788. He wrote to James Madison the previous year that "trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations."
The wisdom of Jefferson, Madison, and the founders is now dead – apparently irrevocably. On Friday, Senator King got the ball rolling when he sent a letter to Feinstein and Republican intelligence committee vice-chairman Saxby Chambliss asking that the Constitution be ignored and they work with him on legislation to create a secret and unanswerable court which could provide "judicial review" of proposals to target drone attacks against citizens of the United States.
Barry's handlers consider the idea of a secret court issuing kill orders of Americans as a trade-off after Democrats and Republicans on the Senate and House Judiciary committees sent him letters requesting that their respective committees be given access to Justice Department documents justifying drone strikes. The administration tried to placate critics by allowing hand-picked members of congressional intelligence committees to examine documents the night before Brennan went before a confirmation hearing as Barry's pick to lord over the CIA.
Reuters reported that the ACLU and civil libertarians "would … likely have problems with" the idea that the government can issue death warrants in secret. Geoffrey Robertson, a prominent British human rights lawyer, denounced the horrific concept of "execution without trial" and "international killing (which) … violates the right to life."
In Congress, however, the concept of trial by jury, held sacred by our forefathers, is little more than a momentary bargaining chip to be traded in as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights continue to be trashed and more than 800 years of common law is systematically dismantled in deference to a forever war against a manufactured al-Qaeda continues.
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Parental responsibilities eviscerated as state takes over
Paul Joseph Watson
Monday, August 27, 2012
Children in nine Austin high schools are to be given GPS tracking devices and assigned "mentors" in a program designed to prevent truancy yet one that also illustrates how kids are being treated like prison inmates.
"With parent permission, up to 1,700 students across eight high schools will be equipped with a GPS device that looks a lot like a cell phone. They will also be teamed up with a mentor who they have to check-in with using the device several times a day," reports KXAN.
The program is being overseen by Dallas-based AIM Truancy Solutions. The company boasts that the system has boosted attendance figures at other high schools by around 12 per cent.
Nine Austin schools are currently part of the program as well as other schools in San Antonio, Dallas and La Joya.
The idea of tracking kids with GPS devices and forcing them to check in with a "mentor" is not far removed from prisoners being made to wear GPS ankle bracelets and being assigned parole officers.
Austin is by no means the only city to use GPS technology to keep tabs on schoolchildren. Similar programs are in place across the country, including in Anaheim where kids are seventh- and eighth-graders with four unexcused absences or more in a school year are forced to carry GPS devices.
Palos Heights School District in Illinois is also using a similar system, attaching GPS locators to children's backpacks in order to "locate kids in seconds."
The program underscores how school has come to represent prisoner training for many children, with their every action being under constant surveillance, indoctrinating them to accept a similar environment in the outside world.
The justification that students need to be tracked and surveilled by school authorities outside of the classroom for their own safety and performance is one that has been abused repeatedly.
In 2010, the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania used school-issued laptops to spy on kids in their own home. The controversy ignited after student Blake Robbins was disciplined for "improper behavior in his home". It turned out that school officials had installed software on the laptops that used the computer's webcam to send images back to the school server every 15 seconds.
Schools across the country have also installed surveillance cameras in bathrooms to spy on children.
The story also serves as a stark reminder of how the role and responsibility of parents to discipline their own children is being eviscerated, with the state stepping in to fill the void.
Forget GPS trackers and cameras in laptops – how long before America follows the British example of the government installing surveillance cameras inside the private homes of citizens to ensure that children go to bed on time, attend school and eat proper meals?
Under the guise of "Family Intervention Projects," social services goons and private security guards in the UK are given the authority to make regular "home checks" to ensure parents are raising their children correctly. Surveillance cameras are also installed inside homes so government spies can keep an eye on whether parents are mistreating kids and whether the kids are fulfilling their obligations under a pre-signed contract.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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So I get to work this morning a tiny bit later than usual (10 minutes or so). The lot turns out to be full of cars as there's a meeting here today. As I drive up the far row, someone leaves. AWESOME!
As I sat listening to an interesting XMPR piece on the history of election fraud, I realized that I was missing my laptop. Obviously there was no parking available when I returned 20 minutes later.
Damn you Murphy.
Monday, February 19, 2007
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What would have been really ironic is if the lot was full of cars because of a meeting that you were hosting.
Damn you invitees!
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Earthrise: A Christmas Postcard from Apollo 8
Posted by Jay at 11:06 AM
It's not Christmas Day yet, but this fantastic image is fit be shared on any season or occasion, although it has more weight on this day. The picture, called Earthrise, is by itself breathtaking enough to be featured on this blog, but it's doubly special because of the occasion on which it was taken by the crew of Apollo 8.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Voyager Golden Record: Images of Earth as Seen by Extraterrestrials
Posted by Jay at 12:10 PM
Last week's post on what the Earth looks like during an eclipse garnered a lot of Ooohs and Aaahs in the comments because of the unusual view it provided of the Earth. But what kind of view would extraterrestrials find of this planet? Fortunately for them, they won't have to travel too far to find pictures of Earth and her inhabitants as they can just look at the images preserved on the Voyager Golden Record.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
What does the Earth look like during a solar eclipse?
Posted by Jay at 12:18 PM
A few days ago on December 10, 2011, a total lunar eclipse took place that was fully visible to people in most of Asia and Oceana, and partially visible to those in Europe and North America. Eclipses, both solar and lunar, are spectacular events that still evoke wonder in the eyes of people on Earth, but wouldn't it be equally fascinating to see what the Earth looks like during an eclipse like this?
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Martin Schoeller: Up Close and Personal
Posted by Jay at 4:11 PM
Mole and Thomas' larger-than-life recreations of famous US icons may be awe-inspiring from afar, but there's nothing like looking into the eyes of a real person. In portrait photographer Martin Schoeller's appropriately titled "Close Up", viewers get up close and personal with Hollywood stars and celebrities in a refreshing and almost overly in-depth manner.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Arthur Mole and John Thomas: A Picture Worth A Thousand Men
Posted by Jay at 3:05 PM
How many men does it take to create the perfect portrait? This blog has on occasion featured group portraits, but nothing on this magnitude. Assembling a cast of several officers and enlisted men, Arthur Mole and John Thomas used their knowledge of perspective and photography in order to create a series of images that would inspire America. Almost a hundred years from that time, their pictures of a thousand men are worth more than tenfold in words.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Sleeve Face: The Portrait within A Portrait
Posted by Jay at 4:15 PM
The money shot or banknote face featured previously was a nice diversion from the more serious portraits of this blog. If you tried to make your own money shot at home, you probably encountered some difficulty because of the small size of the bill. Not so with Sleevefaces or LP Portraits. If you happen to have any old vinyl record covers, simply put them up to your face, pose appropriately, and click the shutter. You now have yourself a sleeveface, the instant portrait within a portrait.
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Hallow's End 2012 begins on Thursday, Oct. 18 and runs through Wednesday, Oct. 31 this year. As with most of the game's holidays, Hallow's End is required for the yearlong meta What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been that grants the Violet Proto-Drake. Completing the required Hallow's End achievements will also award the title the Hallowed.
Last year, Blizzard added some major updates and improvements to the holiday, one of which completely eliminated the hassle behind one of WoW's most hideous RNG nightmares, and one of which left us with two very badass non-combat pets. In essence, Tricky Treats -- once a vomit-inducing item that dropped in spades from the holiday boss, the Headless Horseman -- are now a form of currency that players can use to buy pets, masks, wands, and other holiday items. 2011 also introduced a new set of quests associated with Hallow's End, one of which sends you into an enemy city without the fear of ugly death.
Bottom line: If you weren't around for last year's holiday, a lot of stuff may interest you this year. If you were around for last year, you'll still be interested, as the Headless Horseman's set of dropped epics are a lot more compelling at the beginning of an expansion. Hardcore achievement hunters will also be pleased to note an additional 10 points in the form of Tricks and Treats of Pandaria.
As with most of our holiday guides, I've arranged the achievements in the rough order they should be completed, noting which achievements are required for the meta and which aren't.


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I apologize profusely for sucking at emailing lately. Bridget, I am so sorry about your loss but I'm glad it worked out. Seriously that feeling is the worst. Bianca is the best to go to in those "see the brighter side of things" situations. That is unless she is in need of one, in that case there is no positive outcome, but that's another story.
Anyway I know I have been extremely MIA, and I honestly have no great reason. Yes, I have had a few vacations to Sun Valley & Napa but it's not like I'm backpacking through Thailand or something (btw when can we do that?). The farthest I have made it is Canada. Which I is just like 'Merica just a little bit worse. I'm off to Vegas this weekend, Montana the next and then California. I hope I can get in some qbt (quality blogging time) with my fav Prius ladies.
Once all my Thurs-Mon adventures are over, it's September…wtf! I swear the three of us haven't even had a chance to get day drunk yet. Maybe someday next week? Bianca you might have to take a late lunch and call out because you got salmonella from your turkey burger (there's a crazy recall, check it out). Then the day will be ours. We will be cruising around on our cruisers (I haven't even used mine yet, it's all about the intense street biking these days…bored). We will look back and say, man that was an awesome Wednesday. I'm serious about this, not just saying it for the sake of our blog. We won't regret it…
So what do you think? I'm totally open next Tuesday or Wednesday after 4pm. Bridget/Bailey – this WILL happen. I miss you both dearly and don't hate me for having too horrible of ADHD to sit down and write a blog. Anyone have some medication I can try?
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This week at the Court – In Plain English
However cold it might have been this week in Washington, D.C. (and if you're not on the East Coast, let me tell you "" it is cold), action at the Court was hot. Yes, now that we are a full two months into the Term, it feels like we never left "" just in time for the Christmas recess.
The week started off big when the Court granted cert. in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, the class action employment discrimination case against the retail giant that Court watchers have been eyeing for months. The Court won't be considering whether Wal-Mart actually discriminated against its female employees; instead, it will hear arguments about the class action mechanism itself. As I've explained in previous Plain English posts, a class action is a type of lawsuit where many plaintiffs with similar claims join together and bring one suit, rather than many individual ones. A few "named plaintiffs" whose claims and experiences are typical of the rest of the class assert the legal rights of all the other class members. Courts often see class actions as efficient "" after all, why hear pretty much the same case a thousand times if all one thousand plaintiffs agree to accept a single outcome? Plaintiffs see class actions as advantageous when their individual claims are too small to warrant the time and expense of a trial and when they can afford to hire a lawyer (and get a lawyer interested in their case) en masse but not individually. Lawyers often see class actions as lucrative: if they get a whole bunch of plaintiffs together and take a percentage of their damage awards for a fee, then they can work hard but get paid well for it. Of course, there are all kinds of criticisms of class actions, too, among them the concern that the lawyers end up making much more money than the plaintiffs do, but federal procedure rules allow class actions so that plaintiffs can receive something they want and need: an opportunity to bring their cases in court.
In the Wal-Mart case, though, there is some skepticism about both the size of the proposed class and its make-up. For class actions to work as they should, all of the plaintiffs in the class must have very similar claims because they have suffered very similar harms "" so that any damages awarded to the class will truly compensate them for the harm that they have suffered and so that the defendants can prepare one defense to the class claims. In the Wal-Mart case, the company is arguing that the class is too large "" it includes hundreds of thousands of female store employees from across the country "" and that the class members' claims are not similar enough to justify certifying them as a class. After all, they worked at different stores, under different bosses, in different positions. How can they all have suffered the same harm?
Of course, this case is not only about Wal-Mart, and that's what makes it (and most other Supreme Court cases) so interesting. Whatever the Court decides about class actions will trickle down and affect the formation of future class actions, as well. While many commentators have noted that the current Court is quite friendly to big business, others, like Dahlia Lithwick, have noted that the three women on the Court may want the class to be certified so as to reach the gender discrimination claims at the heart of the case.
Wal-Mart is a great example of the kind of "David and Goliath" case that often makes its way to the Court. Indeed, the Court's motto, "Equal Justice Under Law," means in part that everyone – store clerks and Fortune 500 companies alike – has access to justice. The Court heard oral arguments this week in another "David and Goliath" kind of case, Thompson v. North American Stainless, in which an engineer at a stainless steel manufacturer was fired after his then-fiancée (now wife) filed a gender-discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Eric Thompson argued that, because the company could not legally fire his fiancée in retaliation for her complaint, it instead fired him. At question in the case is whether Title VII "" a federal anti-discrimination law "" protects close family members and friends of a complaining employee, or instead only the employee herself from retaliatory employer action. The Obama Administration sides with Thompson here, arguing that employers would have an easy retaliatory loophole if the law were to allow them to fire spouses and others with close relationships to the person filing a complaint. But, in oral argument, some Justices brought up the proverbial "slippery slope," asking where protection against retaliation begins and ends. As Justice Alito put it, "Does it include simply a good friend? Does it include somebody who just has lunch in the cafeteria every day with the person who engaged in the protected conduct? Somebody who once dated the person who engaged in the protected conduct?" Although some Justices called for a hard and fast rule governing who would be protected (presumably to put employers on notice), Thompson and the United States argued that common sense should dictate. A tough question "" one the Court will answer sometime next year.
Last but not least, the interests of some real underdogs "" undocumented immigrants "" were hotly debated at the Court this week in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting. At issue was an Arizona law (no, not that Arizona law) that penalized businesses hiring such workers. The problem? Well, immigration matters are generally the domain of the federal government, and the states are not allowed to pass laws interfering with that federal role. But under a tiny phrase in a federal law allowing the state to pass laws in very limited circumstances (mostly licensing situations), Arizona may have found its own loophole "" by revoking the business licenses of companies that employ undocumented immigrants rather than fining them. The Justices appeared divided on the question; with Justice Elena Kagan recused from the case, it is possible that the Justices could tie four to four, which would result in the decision below being affirmed.
The case is important because other similar laws, including the recent Arizona law allowing police to stop those whom they reasonably suspect to be in this country illegally, are on their way to the Court. And as we've seen with all of the cases described in this post, a single Supreme Court case is most important when it serves as precedent for cases down the pike.
Happy holidays to all! I'll be back after the first of the year to discuss all things Supreme Court "" in Plain English.
Recommended Citation: Lisa McElroy, This week at the Court – In Plain English, SCOTUSblog (Dec. 9, 2010, 4:29 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2010/12/this-week-at-the-court-in-plain-english/


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In December 2010 a friend of mine, Bruce Wickwire, reached the 95 milestone, and wife Adele turned 90! In their Christmas newsletter sent to friends near and far, Bruce writes, "The warranty has expired on some body parts. And we have a few 'twinges in our hinges.'"
—Charles Tidwell, Sr., Collegedale, Tennessee, United States
"With God all our ugly challenges become beautiful changes!"
—Isaac Milioti Daka, evangelist and district coordinator in the East Zambia Field, Zambia
The first time Alexander set foot in the Seventh-day Adventist house church in Tomsk, Siberia, he was there to cause trouble. His wife had started attending regularly, and Alexander was determined to rescue her from what he considered was "a dangerous cult." To his amazement, Alexander was greeted with a huge outpouring of love, and his troubled heart began to melt.
"I was battling alcohol and despair," says Alexander. "If my wife and I had not found Christ, I would be dead. I came to this church as an enemy. But God showed me His love through these brothers and sisters."
Alexander accepted Jesus, was baptized, and is now an elder at the Tomsk house church, one of only two Seventh-day Adventist congregations in this city of a half million people. He shares Jesus' love with others, but his tiny church is already overflowing. There is no room for new members.
Lack of churches throughout Siberia makes evangelism very challenging. Please pray that the church will be able to provide permanent worship homes for new members so they can continue to grow in Jesus and touch others with His love.
—Material and photograph from "Mission Minutes: A Newsletter From Adventist Mission," www.adventistmission.org